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Chris Brown Fast Facts

CNN Editorial Research (CNN) — Here is a look at the life of Grammy Award-winner Chris Brown, who pleaded guilty to assaulting then-girlfriend Rihanna in 2009. Personal Birth date: May 5, 1989 Birth place: Tappahannock, Virginia Birth name: Christopher Maurice Brown Father: Clinton Brown, corrections officer Mother: Joyce Hawkins, former day care director Children: with

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Bryan Kohberger arrives September 13 for a hearing in Latah County District Court in Moscow

Expert will testify Bryan Kohberger’s cell phone was outside of Moscow on the night of the Idaho murders, defense says

CNN By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the night of the slayings, his attorney says, and the defense plans to offer a cell phone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document supporting an

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Burned remains of Maya royalty marked the rise of a new leader, study says

By Mindy Weisberger, CNN (CNN) — In an ancient Maya temple-pyramid in Guatemala, archaeologists recently discovered the scorched bones of at least four adults who were likely members of a royal lineage. The burning signaled a deliberate and potentially public desecration of their remains, according to new research. The bones offer a rare glimpse of intentional corpse

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‘Wild, wild west.’ Families say organs of deceased Alabama inmates have been removed without their consent

By Isabel Rosales, Chris Youd and Ray Sanchez, CNN (CNN) — After inmate Jim Kennedy Jr. died last year at the Limestone Correctional Facility in Harvest, Alabama, his sister-in-law got an unusual call from the funeral home preparing the body for burial. “Did y’all realize he came back without his organs?” Sara Kennedy recalled being

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LAPD officer will not face criminal charges in killing of 14-year-old girl at store during police confrontation with suspect

By Aya Elamroussi and Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — A Los Angeles Police Department officer will not face criminal charges in the 2021 fatal shooting of a 14-year-old girl killed inside a department store when police fired at a man suspected of attacking a woman, California prosecutors said Wednesday. Valentina Orellana-Peralta and her mother were

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Man suspected of throwing a pipe bomb at The Satanic Temple in Massachusetts is arrested, prosecutors say

By Rob Frehse and Elizabeth Wolfe, CNN (CNN) — A suspect has been arrested for allegedly throwing a pipe bomb that damaged The Satanic Temple headquarters in Salem, Massachusetts, where investigators found a letter addressed, “Dear Satanist” at the scene last week, prosecutors announced. Sean Patrick Palmer, 49, of Perkins, Oklahoma, was arrested Wednesday morning

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California school safety officer’s murder trial ends in mistrial after jury fails to reach verdict in shooting of 18-year-old

By Cindy Von Quednow, Taylor Romine and Dalia Faheid, CNN (CNN) — A mistrial has been declared more than two years after a former California school safety officer was charged with murder for fatally shooting an 18-year-old woman as she tried to flee a physical altercation, after the jury failed to reach a verdict, officials

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Expert will testify Bryan Kohberger’s cell phone was outside of Moscow on the night of the Idaho murders, defense says

By Taylor Romine, CNN (CNN) — Bryan Kohberger, who is accused of killing four University of Idaho students in November 2022, was out driving west of Moscow, Idaho, the night of the slayings, his attorney says, and the defense plans to offer a cell phone tower and radio frequency expert to partially corroborate this account, a court document supporting an alibi

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